The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-07
FACT AND FANCY.
Patrldges are worth only 10 cents dozen In
many towns In the south.

& There are eight persons In Antrim, n. H.,
who were born in the eighteenth century.
They are nearly 100 years old.
A board Of trade was recently organized by
the French Canadian merchants at Montreal
None but Frenchmcn win be admitted
There are sixteen thousand colored teachers
In this country. The schools In the south are
attended BY one million colored pupils.
1t costs San Bernardlno Cal, 81 900 month
to take care OF tramps This does not include
the value of the property stolen by them
The water used in the white house for drink
ing purposes is conveyed to the mansion by
pipes from spring in Franklin Park, several
squares distant.
Italian astronomers place the age of tn,
world at not less than S000O,000 years, and
are agreed that Il has been peopled for abou.
$1,000, 900 years
There are nearly one hundred gypsy families
in winter quarters at Buffalo, n. Y The old
est gypsy queen In the world is the ruler of
one of the tribes.
Two colored citizens of Coahoma county,
Mississippi, snapped wives one day recently,
articles of agreement being drawn up tc
cllnch the bargain.
A bill recently passed by the Pennsyly ania
legislature will probably result in the combi-
,ation OF some or all of the street railways In
Pittsburgh and Allegheny.
1t is reported from Maine that the English
iparrows are growing white, as result of their
being acclimated. White feathers have been
often noticed this winter on the sparrows.
Edward S. Ellis, the novelist, has begun
suit in the court of chancery at Trenton, ~ j.,
for divorce from his wife, Annie NJ, on the
ground that she is frequent visitor of houses
If ill-repute.
The scarcity Of Indian bric-a brac in Califor.
nla is Il new phase of the Indian question A
string of shell and bone beads is worth $50,
and wampum, fragments OF bones, and other
relies are rapidly becoming extinct.
The biggest foolin the world, according to
Sam Jones, is the female who marres man
whose breath smells Of whisky. The revival
list won much applause by making that asser.
ton In one Of his talks TO Boston audience.
In Howard county, Arkansas, there is said
TO be deposit of iron so pure that 1t can be
forged into horseshoe nails without any smet-
ing. The outcrop ia two miles in length, from
fifteen to thirty feet wlde and Of unknown
depth.
In Buffalo, n. Y, the fashionable ladies
have their servants purchase for them stems
Of roses on which may be mounted artificial
buds, which cost only 81 dozen, and then
they wear them TO balls and swell parties as
the products OF nature.
In Ontario where all single women and
widows with the requisite property qualitca-
ton can vote at municipal elections, one
young lady was SO enthusiastic in support Of
the mayor that she postponed her wedding IN
order that she might be able TO help to vote
him into office.
An experienced Boston oculist discouragci
the practice of early rising, especially for chill.
drcn, on account of its evil effect upon the
eyes. He says that early rising impairs the
vitality of the system, and that he would AT
soon rob the child OF its food and clothing as
OF its morning hours.
A birds head dinner party was a unique
entertainment in Paris Each guest had 0
couture representing the head Of Bird an
l ONi, u lhlAltThbNts ahi bAAiNi hANAos AhN ih's'
elegant was that OF a peacock with crest
represented by an aigrette in diamonds, en-.
eralds, aud sapphires.
An old church in Utica which is soon to be
torn down belongs TO a society which was or
ganlzed by the Reformed Dutch in lG2S and
charactcrcd as a congregation by William Ill
| In 1896 The building was erected In 1888,
and during its erection riot arose because
he marble Was cut by Sing sing couycts.
| At the piano-forte recital IN New York lately
| whispering by members OF the audience was
SO persistent that the performer was obliged
TO give the rcbukc: 81 believe that most Of
the ladies and gentlemen are DESTROYS OF
| listening to the music 1t is impossible to do
50, however, while so much whispering goes
/ on"
A prisoner in the jail at Pittsburgh, Pa.
tried to take his life Thursday by swallowing q
case. knife, which had been brought TO hin
with his dinner A physician succeeded In
extracting the knife from the prisoners throat
/ BY using forceps. The victim is suffering ter
rby, as the blade Of the knife lacerated hi;
throat in frlghtful manner.
Thomas NJ Davis, of Milford, has probably
the oldest sleigh in Delaware, In l7D his
great. grandfather, Mark Davis, went TO Phila.
delphia and bought gig. The zig was used
BY one or two generations Of his descendants.
Recently it was changed into sleigh, aud the
gig body of the last century is identical In
shape with the latest style of seighs OF 1857.
The newest aud most extensive mining camp
| IN Montana is Bu;ta Anaconda, which, with its
200 inhabitants, supports four daily news
papers, as many brass bands, several variety
theaters, an opera house, and a large plumber
of some Of the worst gambling resorts aud sa'
looms ever established in that part OF this
country. The city has $4,000 in its treasury